One writer's opinion, but let's start with a trivia question: Who was the first actor to play James Bond, and who was the first villain? Answer below.

Best film: "From Russia With Love" (1963). The best script, with great villains (Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb, Robert Shaw as an assassin, the first appearance of Blofeld) and Sean Connery's best performance.

Best villain: Jaws (7-foot-2 Richard Kiel, in 1977's "The Spy Who Loved Me" and 1979's "Moonraker." Steel-toothed wonder. Just one look at him says "Bond villain."

Best stunt: The ski-parachute jump off a cliff, pre-credits sequence, "The Spy Who Loved Me." Stuntman Rick Sylvester was paid $30,000 to ski off Mount Asgard, a 3,000-foot drop on snowy Baffin Island in Canada.